The Delta independent., 1887-02-22
TELEGRAPH BREVTrIES.
Secretary Manning has resigned.

the Governor of South Carolina.
Pope Leo has offered to act as medi-
ator in the existing European troubles.
President Cleveland has vetoed the
bill granting aid to the Texas sufferers.
A man is on exhibition in London
who is eigh feet and nine inches high.
The Governor of Kansas has ap-
proved bill passed by the Legislature con-
ferring suffrage on women.
Sullivan says his arm will be well by
the 10th of next month and he will then go
Immediately upon the road.
The season in Laborador has been a
very severe one and the seal fisheries have
been almost a complete failure.
Very heavy rains have been falling
at Los Angeles and many bridges have been
carried away and other damage done.
Lieutenant Greeley has been nomi-
mated by the President to be Chief Signal
Officer with the rank of Brigadier-General.
The River and Harbor bill as it
passed the Senate appropriates $4,000 for
the improvement of the mouth of the Co
lumbia river.
Some ..Christian Science" ladies of
Minneapolis made an unsuccessful attempt
to bring back to life girl who had been
dead three weeks.
A young man travelling on the Pan
handle railroad had nightmare and tried
to jump headfirst through the window. He
was pulled back by the porter.
Bishop Curtis, of the Wilmington,
Delaware. diocese, has issued a pronuncia-
mento forbidding balls, church fairs, etc,
for the benefit of funds for religious pur-
poses,
The President has appointed Alexan-
der c. Haskell, of Columbia, South Caro-
lima. Government Director of the Union Pa
cifc Railway Company, vice E. p. Alexan
der, resigned.
Bishop Curtis. of the Catholic Church,
has forbidden the raising of money for re-
ligious purposes by picnics, fairs, excur-
sions or entertainments of any kind within
his diot ese without his consent.
The Governments receipts so far
this month amount to an average of over
81, ,00o, 900 a day. The expenditures have
been unusually heavy, the pension pay
ments amounting to about so 600 900.
Lucius b. Fairchild. Commander-in-
Chief of the q. 4. r., has issued a circu-
lar requesting comrades and &. A. II. Posts
TO send to their respective Congressman
their opinions concerning the Presidents
veto OK the Department Pension bill.
Negotiations are said to be in pro-
gress for the consolidation of the Mexican
National OF Mexico, the Southern Pacific
Coast Narrow-Gauge of California. the Dem
yer & Rio GrSnde of Utah and Colorado
and the Santa Fe * Northern system of
New Mexico.
Boston Corbett, the slayer of Booth.
created sensation in the Kansas Legisla-
ture few days ago. He appeared in the
lower house with two revolvers and car
fridge belt strapped around his body AMI
ammo unced his intention ofkilling Speaker
Smith. Not finding him he ordered the
House TO adjourn and was promptly
obeyed. He was afterwards arrested and
will probably be placed in the insane asy-
lum.
The Berlin Post says that, in reply to
the inquiry by Deputy Eyrern in the Lond-
tag, as to whether war was probable, Bis
marck said: "You know quite as much as
do. We live in a state of peace, but look
at the French preparations in building bar
NJ ba itinn al (.anarat Rnnlnn nnar
and the constant outcry of the French
Patriot League during sixteen years, and
then consider what we have to fear from
France"
Charles klosc. Scheiseringerville
Wisconsin. saloon-keeper, loaded two shot
guns and then emptied the contents of one
into his wife's head as she was kneading
bread, killing her instantly. He then tried
TO shoot himself, but merely blew away one
cheek. He locked the doors, poured kero-
sene over the furniture and set the house
ablaze. When the neighbors tried to enter
he reloaded one of the guns and blew out
his brains.
Owing to the snow-blockade the
Utah and Northern Anaconda copper.
works and mine atButte, We're compelled
to shut down for want of fuel. 1t is said
that the works will remain closed until
May. The Parrot Copper Company has
closed six furnaces. Clark's smelter is
rnnning very low. All of this is on ac-
count of the snow-blockades along the
route. In one place, mile long, the snow
is from thirty to forty feet deep. Over
$, 900 men are out of employment, and the
copper production of the camp Is almost
stopped.
A remarkable thief was brought into
the Cleveland police court this week. For
three months the residents of an aristocratc
part of Cleveland have been annoyed by
burglars. The women refused to remain
alone at their homes after night and strong
men armed themselves with self-acting pis-
tolls. Last night the police arrested Sidney
Walsh, an Englishman twenty-threc years
old, and his wife. They lived in fashion
able street next door to house that Walsh
had burglarized. Scattered about Walsh's
home the police found e, 500 worth of pic
lures, furniture, iewelry and bric-brac that
he had stolen. He had even taken wash
tubs, gasoline stoves and tinware from resi-
lences that he had broken into.
DIR. Gross, physician atSt Vincent's Hos
pital, Baltimore, Nd, considers Red Star
Cough Cure perfectly harmless, being pure